Supply Chain Manager – Aerospace Materials
Mojave, CA
In the Aerospace Supply Chain Manager – Aerospace Materials, you will develop and enact strategies for the efficient manufacturing and on-time delivery of our products, that consistently meet or exceed PPG Safety Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), customer requirements, while managing constraints such as working capital, material availability, and capacity. This will include ensuring timely and accurate response to customers’ orders by providing the required information, schedules, materials, and tools to the manufacturing teams. This role will also be responsible for the long-term and short-term planning and scheduling of raw materials, work orders, intermediates, and finished goods inventories to align with customer demand. This is a leadership position, reporting directly to the Plant Manager, that will drive improvement initiatives and require a thorough knowledge of company operations, sales environment, inventory control and cost structures.
This is an on-site role reporting to the Mojave, CA facility. In this role you will report to the Global Supply Chain Director – Aerospace Materials.
Responsibilities:
- Serve as a key member of the site leadership team, driving a culture of safety, quality, compliance, and operational excellence while ensuring adherence to company and regulatory standards.
- Develop and implement supply chain strategies, policies, procedures, and systems that support business objectives, continuous improvement, and sustained operational performance.
- Lead, develop, and engage a high-performing supply chain organization comprising planners, schedulers, analysts, logistics coordinators, warehouse teams, and inventory management professionals.
- Own the site Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) process, aligning customer demand, production capacity, inventory strategies, and business priorities through an integrated master schedule.
- Optimize inventory performance by managing replenishment strategies, MRP parameters, safety stock levels, and inventory accuracy to achieve Days on Hand (DOH) targets while maintaining customer service levels.
- Oversee end-to-end material flow, including raw material procurement, shipping and receiving, warehouse operations, logistics, and material availability to support uninterrupted manufacturing operations.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives, including Lean and Kaizen methodologies, to enhance supply chain efficiency, reduce waste, and improve operational performance.
- Partner with Sales, Manufacturing, Quality, and Platform leadership to identify constraints, forecast capacity requirements, mitigate supply risks, and ensure value-stream excellence.
- Establish and monitor key supply chain performance indicators, proactively addressing inventory shortages, delivery performance, planning effectiveness, and global material strategy execution through collaboration across all organizational levels.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree or greater in Supply Chain Management, Engineering or Operations is required.
- Eight (8) or more years of experience in a diverse manufacturing environment required.
- Five (5) or more years in a supervisory capacity within Supply Chain required.
- Experience with Sales & Operations Planning to balance supply and demand requirements required.
- Experience using MRP systems, as well as their processes and planning parameters required.
- Experience with machine and resource capacity planning required.
- Ability to develop inventory management policies required.
- Only U.S. Citizens, Green Card holders, and political asylees or refugees are eligible to apply
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The base salary range for this position is $145,000.00 to $175,000.00, with a possibility of an annual bonus up to 20% of base salary.
PPG offers comprehensive benefits such as Health, Dental, Life, Retirement Plan, Paid Vacation & Holidays, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Disability/Leave, and other Voluntary benefit offerings. Actual benefit offerings confirmed at the time of hire.
How we work: At PPG, we bring teams together to accelerate collaboration and career development, with in-person work Monday through Thursday and the opportunity to work remotely on Flexible Fridays. Schedules may vary by location.
